To QE or Not To QE? That Is The Question

While the media is customarily thought to disseminate news, there is a far
more intriguing purpose in the role of the relationship between the national
mindset and the intended purposes of economic establishment.

It has ever been thus, going back to Shakespeare's Salanio character in "Merchant
of Venice." Upon meeting colleagues, the characters would greet each other
with the question: "Now, what news on the Rialto?"

The Rialto was a place where the powers that be would meet in the morning
and exchange ways to use the day's news to establish desired policy. The Roman
baths were also venues in which senators and policymakers would formulate strategies.
Of course, Joseph Goebbels and
the Stalinists also realized
the pivotal role played in the intermarriage of news and economic policy.

Similarly, today we observe the fine "Roman hand" in planting stories to influence
a kind of Orwellian mindset in the furtherance of establishing desired fiscal
objectives--the doublethink, paranoia, deception and delusion.

It is more than coincidental that, when the elites wish to formulate their
desired goals in such matters as quantitative easing (QE), bailouts and Keynesian
pump priming, negative economic data will be released. It's the same old story.

The Obama team is dedicated to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's philosophy
of avoiding depression through the printing press to proliferate cheap money.
We are being set up for the acceptance of quantitative stimulus by whatever
means and guises necessary.

Until now, everything was coming up roses. National recovery was in the air.
Then, all of sudden these past few weeks, data turned on a dime? Economists
were compelled to rethink hitherto positive figures. Are we being programmed
for more QE?

It would not be surprising if we were finessed into acceptance of inflationary
policies. Bills could be paid with cheap dollars. Moribund local and state
governments could pay off their strangling debts. Think of our swollen budget
being paid with cheap dollars. A seemingly simple solution to a complex problem.
However, there may be another side to the seesaw.

Our erstwhile allies, such as China and Russia, have been making noise about
setting up an alternative currency. Witness Greece and the PIIGS nations
(Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain). They are desperate for money
to extricate themselves from their financial quicksands. More bailouts anyone?

Foreign governments are buying gold(GLD) at levels not seen in 30 years due
to risk of further declines in the U.S. dollar (UUP).

Gold (GLD) is breaking out of the symmetrical triangle formation on its way
to our late January target of $160 or $1600 gold. Monitor for a powerful leg
higher as we break $1575 or $152 on the GLD.

Goldman Sachs (GS) is under subpoena in
Manhattan as possibly playing a major role in the housing market fiasco. The
Manhattan District Attorney is investigating "activities in creating and selling
mortgage-based securities designed to allow the bank to profit from the collapse
of the housing market."

One cannot but hope to consider that many of these dramatis personae are some
of the very same folks that are steering our national financial ship of state.
Prayer anyone?

All these roads lead clearly to the validity of Gold Stock Trades' essential
message, either mining stocks (GDX) and gold (GLD) and silver (SLV) bullion,
may be the requisite ports in the upcoming storm.

I started reading charts at eleven years old. One day my father, a market
trader and technician found his library of books on technical analysis mysteriously
disappearing. He later found the textbooks under my bed. For many years day
and night I studied technical analysis and charting, working and learning from
my father who has over 50 years of trading experience. Technical analysis is
my passion and love.

In 2001, I started noticing the junior mining stocks and gold as having a
tremendous upside. For the past 9 years I have researched many juniors and
have identified the major winners using technical analysis and finding top
management.

I earned a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and a Masters Degree. I learned
most of my technical analysis from the school of hard knocks, managing real
money for myself and for my family.

Constantly perfecting my craft, I have traded for two decades of success in
many different markets. I have been asked to post ideas to some of my students
who have taken my course in charting and technical analysis. I have made an
excellent living trading stocks for myself.

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